Urg, try two, without the patch (so I don't hit the message size limits). The patch has been made available at: http://www.best.com/~popiel/scrollbar.patch
Hello. I'm new here, so I don't know if I'm stepping on anybody's toes, covering old ground, or anything like that. If I am, please tell me, and I'll desist. :-) The last three times I've installed rxvt, I've gotten grumpy, because I prefer the athena (aka xterm) scrollbar semantics, instead of the normal rxvt semantics. While this is a simple compile-time option, it's a pain to use, since most installs these days are done with precompiled binaries. (I've heard that there's similar grumpiness among people who prefer the NeXT look-and-feel.) Instead of just whining about it today, though, I followed a friend's advice, and hacked in runtime options for this stuff. There are three new runtime options included in my changes: -ss style scrollbar style; style = rxvt | xterm / athena | next -sw width scrollbar width -sa align scrollbar thumb click alignment; align = center | top | bottom These can also be used as resources scrollBar_style, scrollBar_width, and scrollBar_align. The style option replaces XTERM_SCROLLBAR and NEXT_SCROLLBAR. (The styles xterm and athena mean the same thing.) The width option replaces SB_WIDTH and can be used with either the rxvt style or the athena / xterm style. (The NeXT style is still fixed at 19 pixels wide.) The align option replaces FUNKY_SCROLL_BEHAVIOUR... just 'cause I could, really (and align==top more closely emulates classic athena scrollbars). The one thing that I didn't fix was the variant SCROLLBAR_INITIAL_DELAY for NeXT style vs. rxvt style. The patch is not pretty. I didn't reindent the source or directly fix all references to SB_WIDTH, to keep the patch size reasonable. I made my patch against the Debian version of rxvt-2.6.4. This may complicate matters; I didn't check. Enjoy. - Alex
